Revisions in these statistics

The data of the statistics have become revised according to the
table below. For more information about data revisions, see Section
3 of the quality description (only in Finnish).

Revision of annual changes in the wages and
salaries sum in main industries 1)

Industry / Reference
period

Year-on-year change,%

Revision, percentage point

1st release

Latest release (2018-04-13)

A-X Whole economy

09/2017

2.6

2.5

-0.1

10/2017

3.1

3.2

0.1

11/2017

3.7

3.5

-0.2

12/2017

2.2

2.8

0.6

01/2018

4.5

4.3

-0.2

B-E Total industry

09/2017

0.9

0.9

0.0

10/2017

2.8

2.9

0.1

11/2017

4.2

4.1

-0.1

12/2017

1.8

2.0

0.2

01/2018

4.0

4.0

0.0

F Construction

09/2017

5.8

5.4

-0.4

10/2017

5.7

5.9

0.2

11/2017

8.2

8.4

0.2

12/2017

4.7

6.3

1.6

01/2018

8.8

9.1

0.3

G Wholesale and retail trade

09/2017

1.6

1.6

0.0

10/2017

1.8

1.7

-0.1

11/2017

3.6

1.7

-1.9

12/2017

2.3

1.5

-0.8

01/2018

2.4

2.5

0.1

HIJLMNRS Other service activities
total

09/2017

5.1

5.2

0.1

10/2017

5.2

5.6

0.4

11/2017

5.9

6.5

0.6

12/2017

3.9

5.3

1.4

01/2018

6.9

7.2

0.3

K Financial and insurance
activities

09/2017

8.9

8.5

-0.4

10/2017

1.4

0.9

-0.5

11/2017

1.9

2.0

0.1

12/2017

-0.8

0.0

0.8

01/2018

-0.6

-0.9

-0.3

P Education, excl. public
sector

09/2017

-0.5

0.1

0.6

10/2017

-0.6

0.1

0.7

11/2017

0.0

0.2

0.2

12/2017

-0.9

0.2

1.1

01/2018

0.4

0.4

0.0

Q Health and social work, excl.
public sector

09/2017

2.7

1.6

-1.1

10/2017

4.1

3.1

-1.0

11/2017

3.5

3.4

-0.1

12/2017

0.8

1.6

0.8

01/2018

3.5

3.4

-0.1

OPQ Public sector

09/2017

0.2

0.0

-0.2

10/2017

1.4

1.4

0.0

11/2017

0.2

0.0

-0.2

12/2017

1.1

0.7

-0.4

01/2018

2.9

2.3

-0.6

Private sector

09/2017

3.9

3.8

-0.1

10/2017

4.6

4.6

0.0

11/2017

5.8

5.7

-0.1

12/2017

3.3

4.1

0.8

01/2018

6.0

6.0

0.0

1) The 1st release refers to the time when data for the reference
period were released for the first time. The revision describes the
difference of annual change percentages between the first and
latest releases.

Revision of long-term annual changes in the
wages and salaries sum in main industries

Industry

Year

Average 1)

Average for absolute values
2)

Whole economy (A-X)

2014

-0.7

0.7

2015

-0.7

0.7

2016

-0.5

0.6

Manufacturing (BCDE)

2014

-0.2

0.4

2015

-0.2

0.2

2016

-0.2

0.3

Construction (F)

2014

-2.0

2.0

2015

-1.7

1.7

2016

-1.2

1.5

Trade (G)

2014

-0.7

0.7

2015

-0.8

0.8

2016

-0.7

0.9

Other services (HIJLMNRS)

2014

-0.8

0.8

2015

-1.1

1.1

2016

-0.7

0.9

Financial intermediation (K)

2014

-0.3

0.8

2015

-0.4

0.5

2016

-0.5

0.7

Education (P) excl. public
sector

2014

-0.1

0.5

2015

-0.6

0.6

2016

-0.1

0.5

Health and social work (Q) excl.
public sector

2014

-0.6

0.6

2015

-0.8

0.8

2016

-0.9

1.2

Public sector (OPQ)

2014

0.0

0.1

2015

-0.3

0.3

2016

0.0

0.2

Private sector

2015

-0.8

0.8

2016

-0.5

0.8

1) In 2014 and 2015, the average was calculated from data revised
between the first and seventh release months in the statistical
reference year. The average for 2016 was calculated upon completion
of the data for the first and last release months in the
statistical reference year, when the official structural business
and financial statement statistics are also published.
2) In 2014 to 2015, the average was calculated from the absolute
values of differences between the first and seventh release months.
The average for 2016 was calculated from the absolute values of
differences between the first and last release months in the
statistical reference year, when the official structural business
and financial statement statistics are also published.